How Are You Celebrating Confederate History month?

[Richmondbread]

The month of April is Confederate History month. It's a wonderful opportunity to celebrate our ancestors who fought for the glorious Confederacy. I know mine did. It wasn't for slavery, but for States rights!
I am visiting the graves of ancestors and the dead and placing little battle flags to dot the cemetery in the local counties here. The Virginia Flaggers will have a ceremony at Hollywood Cemetery with bag pipes and all!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_History_Month

[Ayetooey]

How did the confederates treat native Americans like yourself?

[Richmondbread]

How did the confederates treat native Americans like yourself?

They had Indian regiments in the Confederate Army

[Alexandro]

The only reason I see to celebrate this is that it represents some guiri losers getting cucked, and that is always nice

I never really understood why you people are so eager to harken back to a four year period where your region was destroyed because some rich whites convinced some poor whites to die for their right to own blacks. "I'm a real American but openly celebrate a coalition who's primary driving goal was to no longer be American", yeah real big brain move, tio.

Also, when people say that Lincoln fought to free the slaves, or that the Civil War was fought purely over slavery, that is indeed false. However, when people say that slavery caused the Civil War, that is completely correct. Because, all the major points of sectional tension that were significant enough to drive the union apart can be traced directly to slavery. Furthermore, considering that every single declaration of secession began with an extended spiel about the necessity of race based slavery, I would say it is pretty damn valid to make the claim that Confederate states seceded based on slavery. The whole "states rights" rhetoric was by and large a mechanism for preserving slavery rather than the primary institution for which they fought, because the south had been all too happy to abandon the sanctity to said "states rights" if it served to benefit their interests.

[PlattitüdenPaule]

Dunno, getting carried around by my fav black servants sounds like a real climate saver to me though.

[sean]

During the US Civil War, Canada became a hotbed of Confederate agents, it’s pretty common knowledge that Britain supported the Confederacy for a period, they also built CSS Alabama and supplied the Confederacy with munitions and uniforms, and were home to their embassy.

They did send observers and toyed with the idea of sending the army in to aid the Confederacy. Ultimately though it never happened because Britain didn't want to be associated with slavery after we'd already abolished it in the Empire.

Jefferson Davis fled to Quebec and the Confederacy moved a lot of their holdings to Canada. To this day there are more descendants of the Confederacy in Canada than the US.

Although I don't think the Confederacy would have lasted a long time, I believe in preserving history and was appalled when the fuckheads in BC took down Macdonald's statue, and hated the Confederate monument defacing in the States, there's an interesting parallel between the erasure of Confederate history in the States and the erasure of British history in Canada.

Once they do some mental gymnastics to reinterpret all of our history to be racist and oppressive, they will tear all of our shit down too. Once nobody knows about the Confederate because all of the plaques and statues are gone and it isn't taught in American schools anymore, how are they going to explain why negroes are an oppressed class of former slaves who still deserve reparations and special treatment?

Not to mention the Canadian public curriculum goes out of it's way to cover native and confederate history in the technical stream and covers American and modern history fairly well in academic streams like Pure or -1 courses. And our curriculum is effective given our high literacy and graduate rates.

We also had our own KKK (Jews and Catholics were strictly not allowed in), the highest membership percentage per capita our KKK ever achieved was in the 1920's in Saskatchewan. If you weren't in the Klan in Saskatoon, Moose Jaw or Regina, you weren't shit.



They were given membership lists from the Loyal Orange Lodge to recruit from. The KKK was overall overshadowed by the Orange Order.

For many reasons, I believe the original Klan was inspired by the Lodge. Aside from some of the ideology, a hint is shown below. On the right, a Lodge symbol, William of Orange.

Spoiler!

[Richmondbread]

During the US Civil War, Canada became a hotbed of Confederate agents, it’s pretty common knowledge that Britain supported the Confederacy for a period, they also built CSS Alabama and supplied the Confederacy with munitions and uniforms, and were home to their embassy.

They did send observers and toyed with the idea of sending the army in to aid the Confederacy. Ultimately though it never happened because Britain didn't want to be associated with slavery after we'd already abolished it in the Empire.

Jefferson Davis fled to Quebec and the Confederacy moved a lot of their holdings to Canada. To this day there are more descendants of the Confederacy in Canada than the US.

Although I don't think the Confederacy would have lasted a long time, I believe in preserving history and was appalled when the fuckheads in BC took down Macdonald's statue, and hated the Confederate monument defacing in the States, there's an interesting parallel between the erasure of Confederate history in the States and the erasure of British history in Canada.

Once they do some mental gymnastics to reinterpret all of our history to be racist and oppressive, they will tear all of our shit down too. Once nobody knows about the Confederate because all of the plaques and statues are gone and it isn't taught in American schools anymore, how are they going to explain why negroes are an oppressed class of former slaves who still deserve reparations and special treatment?

Not to mention the Canadian public curriculum goes out of it's way to cover native and confederate history in the technical stream and covers American and modern history fairly well in academic streams like Pure or -1 courses. And our curriculum is effective given our high literacy and graduate rates.

We also had our own KKK (Jews and Catholics were strictly not allowed in), the highest membership percentage per capita our KKK ever achieved was in the 1920's in Saskatchewan. If you weren't in the Klan in Saskatoon, Moose Jaw or Regina, you weren't shit.



They were given membership lists from the Loyal Orange Lodge to recruit from. The KKK was overall overshadowed by the Orange Order.

For many reasons, I believe the original Klan was inspired by the Lodge. Aside from some of the ideology, a hint is shown below. On the right, a Lodge symbol, William of Orange.

Spoiler!

Interesting, but The KKK had nothing to do with the Confederacy.

[Smeagol]

"I'm a real American but openly celebrate a coalition who's primary driving goal was to no longer be American", yeah real big brain move, tio

There's nothing more American than secession, so yes, it was our ancestors who represented the real American spirit.

[Hoihey]

I’m not celebrating it and I never knew there was such a thing until you mentioned it. Though I shouldn’t be surprised, southern states always seem so eager to piss off those yanks and overstate their historical significance as it’s all they have at this point. Celebrating a distant past, celebrating losers. What I don’t get though: they lost so why are you so keen on celebrating losers? Do you folks truly have nothing else going for you? What have you done recently? Do you think your ancestors who lived such an eventful life would be proud of who you became today? A backwater who’s culture only exists in run down shanty towns while the urban centers are full of transplants and migrants that share no connection to their culture. Remember the past for what it was, don’t over glorify or romanticize it as it does you no good in improving your region and making your culture into something that everybody would envy.

[Richmondbread]

I’m not celebrating it and I never knew there was such a thing until you mentioned it. Though I shouldn’t be surprised, southern states always seem so eager to piss off those yanks and overstate their historical significance as it’s all they have at this point. Celebrating a distant past, celebrating losers. What I don’t get though: they lost so why are you so keen on celebrating losers? Do you folks truly have nothing else going for you? What have you done recently? Do you think your ancestors who lived such an eventful life would be proud of who you became today? A backwater who’s culture only exists in run down shanty towns while the urban centers are full of transplants and migrants that share no connection to their culture. Remember the past for what it was, don’t over glorify or romanticize it as it does you no good in improving your region and making your culture into something that everybody would envy.

They were not losers, they were brave patriots who fought for their homes. When people study the War for Southern independence, nobody cares about Grant, Sherman, McCllelan- they are all boring. People are more fascinated by General Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Jeb Stuart, and those excellent military men. It's just funny how that is.